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May 17, 2022 10:10 pm
Original Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/05/17/2050231/angry-it-admin-wipes-employers-databases-gets-7-years-in-prison?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medi
Angry IT Admin Wipes Employer's Databases, Gets 7 Years In Prison
Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data. BleepingComputer reports: Bing allegedly performed the act in June 2018, when he used his administrative privileges and "root" account to access the company's financial system and delete all stored data from two database servers and two application servers. This has resulted in the immediate crippling of large portions of Lianjia's operations, leaving tens of thousands of its employees without salaries for an extended period and forcing a data restoration effort that cost roughly $30,000. The indirect damages from the disruption of the firm's business, though, were far more damaging, as Lianjia operates thousands of offices, employs over 120,000 brokers, owns 51 subsidiaries, and its market value is estimated to be $6 billion.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/05/17/2050231/angry-it-admin-wipes-employers-databases-gets-7-years-in-prison?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medi
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